{"id":22465,"date":"2012-04-14T03:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T03:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22465"},"modified":"2012-04-14T03:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T03:43:56","slug":"nharas-and-morenas-horras-a-luso-african-model-for-the-social-history-of-the-spanish-caribbean-c-1570-1640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22465","title":{"rendered":"Nharas and Morenas Horras: A Luso-African Model for the Social History of the Spanish Caribbean, c. 1570-1640"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1163\/138537810X12632734397061\" target=\"_blank\">Nharas and Morenas Horras: A Luso-African Model for the Social History of the Spanish Caribbean, c. 1570-1640<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booksandjournals.brillonline.com\/content\/15700658\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Early Modern History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/booksandjournals.brillonline.com\/content\/15700658\/14\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Issue 1<\/a>\u00a0(2010)<br \/>\npages 119-150<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1163\/138537810X12632734397061\" target=\"_blank\">10.1163\/138537810X12632734397061<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.msu.edu\/people\/faculty\/david-wheat\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Wheat<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Michigan State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drawing on little-used archival materials held in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Archive_of_the_Indies\" target=\"_blank\">Seville\u2019s Archive of the Indies<\/a> and ecclesiastical records from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathedral_of_Havana\" target=\"_blank\">Cathedral of Havana<\/a>, this article argues that free African and African-descended women participated in Spain\u2019s colonization of the Caribbean to a degree that has not been fully recognized. Regularly described as <em>vecinas<\/em> (heads of household) and as spouses to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iberian_Peninsula\" target=\"_blank\">Iberian<\/a> men in key port cities, free women of color played active roles in the formation and maintenance of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Caribbean<\/a> society during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, not as peripheral or marginalized figures, but as non-elite insiders who pursued their own best interests and those of their families and associates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nharas and Morenas Horras: A Luso-African Model for the Social History of the Spanish Caribbean, c. 1570-1640 Journal of Early Modern History Volume 14, Issue 1\u00a0(2010) pages 119-150 DOI: 10.1163\/138537810X12632734397061 David Wheat, Assistant Professor of History Michigan State University Drawing on little-used archival materials held in Seville\u2019s Archive of the Indies and ecclesiastical records from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,28,459,8],"tags":[10415,10416,892],"class_list":["post-22465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-david-wheat","tag-journal-of-early-modern-history","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}